Author Talk with Dr. Scott Anderson

Explore the complicated history of buying and selling land along the New York frontier after the American Revolution with Dr. Scott Anderson at Seymour Library. Building upon his service as an expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials from 1999 to 2001, Dr. Anderson’s new book Pricing the Land: The Buying and Selling of Frontier New York and the Cayuga Reservation (Cornell University Press), traces the history of land sales in the territory on the northern side of Cayuga Lake.

Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of Seymour Library.

Dr. Scott Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at SUNY Cortland. He is the author of Auburn, New York: The Entrepreneurs’ Frontier (Syracuse University Press)